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On
Wednesday, the Swedish newspaper Expressenpublished what it described as
an exclusive interview
with Ali Abdu--Eritrea's long-time information minister, government spokesman, and censor-in-chief--who vanished
from public view in November. The piece confirmed that Ali had gone into exile,
but it shed no light on the whereabouts and well-being of more than two dozen imprisoned
journalists.

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New York, September
26, 2011--A Sweden-based journalist was publicly threatened Friday in
connection with her reporting on the case of Dawit
Isaac, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who has been imprisoned in Eritrea for
a decade without charge, according to news reports and CPJ interviews. A
day earlier in New York, bodyguards for the Eritrean leader Isaias Afewerki
pushed and threatened two Swedish journalists seeking to speak to the president
about the Isaac case, the journalists said.